The Art Quotes

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Art is seduction, not rape.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.